Christ is the Mystery no. 107
End-Time Chronology of Events pt. 2
1906-1946
Aug 11, 2013
Brian Kocourek
Going beyond the camp 64-0719E P:17 More and more I am made to
believe that people are not getting to Christ. Now, I am here to try to help in
every way that I can and make my statement as clear as I know how to make them.
And you suffer with me if you will. As I look and preach across the nation and
watch the people, I'm fully persuaded that the people are not getting to
Christ. And I believe that it's the enemy that's throwed
this hindrance, because, the reason I believe this, He is not the object
that they had been pointed to. They have either been pointed to a dogma,
or a doctrine, or a party, or experience, or a sensation, or
something like that, instead of being pointed to Christ the Word. That's
why I think that people are resting their eternal destination upon some dogma
or some sensation, like some say, "I danced in the Spirit," or;
"I spoke with tongues"; "I felt fire run over me." And do
you know, all those things can be impersonated by the
devil? There's just one thing that he cannot impersonate; that's the Word.
Last Sunday we began this mini series on the end-Time
Chronology of Events by bringing up the three conditions that we must understand
in order to be able to comprehend the Events that have been ordained to unfold
in this last hour.
Condition number one, All things are subject to Him and
condition number Two And all things evolve around Him or in reaction to Him, and
then that brings us to what we will study this morning, condition number III. Condition
number III). since all the
end-time events are subject to him and evolve around him, or are in reaction to
His Presence, then Number 3, All
the events constituting the end can not begin without His Presence as the
catalyst for the end.
Revelations
10: 1-7 1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a
cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his
face was as it were the sun, and his feet as
pillars of fire: 2 And he had in his hand a little
book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his
left foot on the earth, 3 And
cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered
their voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had
uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
write them not. 5 And the angel which I saw stand
upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And
sware by him that liveth
for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the
earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are
therein, that time should be no longer delayed: 7 But
in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.time shall no longer be delayed.
Notice at this season that time now begins to blend
with Eternity. everything begins to speed up, whereas
man traveled for thousands of years either walking, riding a horse or traveling
in a ship or boat to get one from destination to the other. The ships dependent
on the wind was the fastest form of transportation, but still very slow. But in
this hour since the beginning of Laodicea, we have
seen the invention of the steam engine for railroad, to the diesel engine, to
the jet engine, to rocket power, and in the stealth government black ops, they
are working on power for prolusion that uses all kinds of unimaginable power
from unimaginable sources.
In the Book of Daniel 12:4 we are told, But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Now,
in the original text the word "run" as in "Many shall run to and fro" is not even in the text, but was
placed there when the Bible was translated into English. The Word actually
says, many shall "go" as
in travel "to and fro",
meaning "many will travel, and knowledge shall increase". And
we have seen not just an increase of Knowledge but an explosion in knowledge and
technological inventiveness that has taken man from the horse and buggy into
the electronics, computer and space age.
But as is the inventiveness of man has increased so
has the Spirit of God among the people come in more and more until the Fullness
of God has come down in this hour once again.
In his sermon, Seventy
weeks of Daniel 61-0806 P:36 God don't have things out of cater. He's just letting it run like that
for a little time. And I truly believe that that thing was done, and at this last days is when God is going to reveal these secrets
to the church. He hasn't done it before, and the reason He hasn't done it is to
keep the church a-watching and praying all the time, not knowing when it was
coming. But you remember in Daniel 12 He said, "The wise shall understand in the last days"? It's been given to him. The
Spirit of wisdom comes into the church to make known to the church by the revelation of the Holy Ghost,
bringing the church in and revealing what day that we're living in. Just the
same as Gabriel come to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the church in the last
days to reveal these great, deep, secret things. Do you understand now?
So we see it all begins with His Great
presence coming in a way that he has not been here for nearly 2,000 years.
John 14:
26 but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
Whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
1 John 2: 21
"we have an unction (or anointing) from the
Holy One that we might know all things." So we see the purpose
of the anointing of God upon us to bring an understanding to us.
Ephesians
1:17 we are promised that
"God will bring with Him a certain anointing that is called the Spirit of
wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of Him." And in speaking of this Brother Branham said from Seventy Weeks of
Daniel's pg. 15, "The Spirit of
wisdom comes into the Church to make known to the Church by the Revelation of
the Holy Ghost, bringing the Church in and revealing what day that we're living
in. Just the same as Gabriel come
to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the Church in the last days to reveal these
great, deep, secret things. Do you understand now?" So you see,
the Spirit of God will come to the Church and bring with Him Revelation which
will anoint the Church to understand the day and the hour and His purpose in
being here among us.
In 1897, J. B. Rotherham
wrote in his Bible translation called The
Emphasized Bible, he wrote the following; "In this edition the word Parousia
is uniformly rendered "Presence" ("Coming," as a
representative of this word being set aside.)" He continued "The Parousia,... is still in the future, and may therefore be enshrouded
in a measure of obscurity which only fulfillment can clear away:
In other words, God interprets his own word by
bringing it to pass. He goes on, "It may in
fine be both a period, more or less extended, during which certain
things shall happen, an event, coming on and passing away as one
of a series of Divine interposition's, Christ is raised as a first fruit,
that is one event; He returns and vouchsafes His "Presence,"
(in other words he vindicates His presence with the sign of Messiah,
that is another event) During which time He raises
His own (This is resurrection he's talking about and he says), That is another event, However large and prolonged;
and finally comes another cluster of events constituting "The
End." Hence after all, "Presence" may be the most widely and
permanently satisfying translation of the looked for Parousia
of the Son of Man."
Notice how wise this man Rotherham was, he saw that God always acts in a series of events, that he never
just comes down and blam, does whatever he came down
for and heads back up. No, when God acts it is very deliberate and detailed. So
I want you to notice that there are a series of events constituting the Parousia presence of Christ or as Brother Branham called it the Appearing which
he said comes before the Coming.
Brother Branham said it in various places,
for example in the Message End-Time Evangelism"
he said "Now, we have
already seen and are witnessing the appearing of the Lord. Now remember, appearing and coming are two" different words,
to appear and then" to come. Now is the appearing, He's
already appeared in these last few days. Right here with us in the last few
years. Now, it's a sign" of His Coming."
And from We
would see Jesus 62-0627 P:76 he said, Now, we're at the west coast, and the S-o-n is appearing
before His coming. Remember, appearing and coming is two different words.
See? He's appearing now in the church, showing Himself alive after two thousand
years. "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
Now, we can say that part of that Appearing
was in the form of the Sign of Messiah, for the word appearing in the bible is
from the Greek word "Apokalupsis", which
was translated as appearing as we see in 1 Peter 1:7
but also as coming as we see in
1
Corinthians 1:4 and also as revelation or revealing as in
revealing of the thoughts and intents of the heart as we will see in various
other scriptures. But first let's turn to
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more
precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom
having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him
not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even
the salvation of your souls. 10 Of
which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that
not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now
reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ;
Notice how Ephesians
1:17 ties together with 1 Peter 1:7-13.
"That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of him:"
And also we see the same scene in 2 Thessalonians 1:7 And
to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
from heaven with his mighty angels, and then skip up to verse 10 When
he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that
believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day.
Notice in the day when
he comes to apokalupsis with his mighty
angels, and at that time His great revelation comes into the saints and
glorifies us together with him, that word again is endoxazo,
of en meaning in doxa which is his
opinion, values, and judgments, zoe, or lving themselves out in your life. en-in-doxa-zoe. The Great values and opinions of God
manifested or revealed in his saints.
And again we are told in 1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice,
inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory
shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Christ
is the Mystery of God Revealed 65-3 We're not suppose to make converts to
Christianity by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in you as God was
in Christ.
Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728
36-4
Look, Christ in you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation. See?
Christ's Life in you makes Him the center of the revelation. Christ in the Bible, makes the Bible a complete revelation of Christ.
Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing. See, what
God's trying to do? What is the new birth then? You say, "Well, Brother
Branham, what is the new birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus Christ
personally to you. Amen. See? Not you joined a church, you shook a hand;
you done something different; you said a creed; you promised to live by a code
of rules; but Christ, the Bible... He is the Word that was revealed to you.
And no matter what anybody says, what takes place, it's Christ. Pastor, priest,
whatever it might be... It's Christ in you. That is the revelation that the
Church was built upon.
And we
see this same word apokalupsis translated as the
word manifestation in Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
in us. 19 For
the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
And again as the word coming in 1 Corinthians 1: 4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for
the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 5 That in every
thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in
all knowledge; 6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ: 8 Who
shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God
is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the
fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 Now I beseech you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same
thing, and that there be no divisions among you;
but that ye be perfectly joined together in the
same mind and in the same judgment.
So when brother Branham speaks of an
Appearing before the coming, he's talking about the Apokalupsis
of the Holy Spirit, the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the Unveiling of the Doxa, then Revealing or manifesting that same
doxa in us.
And so we take notice that brother Branham
cautions us to remember that the appearing and coming are in fact two different
words and they mean two different things, and speak of two different events. He
says that it is a sign of His Coming.
Also remember the parable of the thief, "if the good man had known what hour the thief was coming he
would not have suffered his house to be broken into."
This sign of the appearing is a sign given
that an epochal season is in process or in motion. But remember,
it is a sign only, it is the Appearing not the event of the coming itself. But
it is to get us ready for that coming.
So the important thing we
must remember is that God deals with events. An event is not a one second shot,
but rather something that happens over an extended period of time more or less
as Rotherham said.
And that is where so many
miss him, because they look for what God is doing as though it has to be like a
bolt of lightening. But if you will notice the lightning is not a flash, but
the lightening Jesus refers to actually lights up the entire sky.
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth
even unto the west; so shall also the coming (parousia) of the Son of man be.
Ok, so notice the lightning,
comes from the eat, but shine even to the west. That
means it takes up the whole sky. And he said that is the way the Parousia of the Lord would be. His presence will illuminate
everything.
Ok, so with that background
in mind, and keeping in mind our three points, "all things are made by him
and for him, and all things are not only subject to him , but evolve around
Him, then point number three, "All the events constituting the end can not
begin without His Presence as the catalyst for the end."
Now, with that in mind let's
begin to look at the dates and times constituting the end-times.
In 1906 The early rain begins... and it begins to water the
earth...Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids
in those days will I pour out my spirit.
1909 The Pillar of fire returns
to earth to overshadow God's ordained prophet at his birth just exactly as at
the birth of the Son of God in Bethlehem.
Then in 1916, that same pillar of fire, changed forms and appeared
in a tree above the little prophet and began to teach him how to keep his
vessel as a sanctified vessel for the service of the Lord.
From that time 60-0716 P:95 Now look,
God knows when I was a boy... When I was seven years old, the Angel of the Lord
met me as a whirlwind in that bush that day and said, "Don't never
smoke, drink, or defile your body." I never smoked in my life, never drank in my life, and I've got... I know no
woman but my wife. And so then, I didn't live immoral when I was sinner. But Since
I've been a Christian, I've tried to live as straight as I know how to live, and
God knows that's the truth.
So we see God begin to hone his prophet for
a work to do.
Then in 1933 something took place that begin to
let the world in on The Parousia of Christ... He'd already been here since
the prophet of God was born. His appearance at his birth, then at 7 his
appearance in the tree giving his prophet his first lessons on holiness at the
age of seven. But the world knew nothing of His presence. So there had to be an Epiphanea. A shining forth, the light to
lighten men, the illumination to show His presence.
The Parousia Presence of God in our midst without anyone knowing it,
would produce nothing and would be totally in vein. So there had to be an Ephiphanaea, or a shining forth. A light to lighten the
gentiles as the Scripture says.
In order for you to understand what I am driving at here, let me first
explain what I mean. As I said, there are certain promises that God has laid
down as laws such as sowing and reaping
which states that whatsoever a man sows that shall
he also reap. But there are also others promises in the Bible such
as "If a man regard iniquity in his heart the
Lord will not hear his prayer."
Now these are not the same thing. One is a law that if you sow you shall
also reap what you sow. But the other doesn't
specifically have to do with sowing at all. He said that one day our
relationship with Him will be such that before we even ask, He will answer. So
in this case your prayers and requests will be answered even before you've done
any ground work and any such sowing. But on the other hand, based upon the law
of sowing and reaping a man could sow and sow and sow and he shall reap even if
none of His prayers are ever answered. That is why the wicked seem to do so
well so often. It is not God blessing them, but God is honoring a law that he
set forth. And if the wicked really put forth the effort to sow, then they will
get a return on their invested time.
But let's face it, their sowing is but for a season and so shall their
reaping bring forth only for a season. But what we are looking at in this time
even though there are many events taking place because of His presence among
us, yet only those that are blessings are for the bride while those things
which are a curse are for those who turn Him down.
And so we see there are promises in this age that deal only with and for
the bride, shuch as the Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation in the knowledge of Him, the spirit of adoption, the being conformed
to the Image of the first born son, etc.
So we see just as God began to instruct His prophet, so has he come to
instruct His Elect children. Now, we have already read about the Spirit of
Wisdom and revelation, and the Spirit of Grace that helps us to receive the
mind of Christ, but we also see in Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is
our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Now, the use of this word appear was translated from
the Greek word Phaneroo which tells us
that as Christ who is our Life manifests himself in his true identity, so too
we must also manifest ourselves in our true identity with him in the same
glory, the same doxa, the same opinions
and values, etc.
Now, this process we go through of being quickened to the Word brings sanctification,
as we are washed in the washing of water by the word. And this takes us to the place of becoming
"Alive and subject to every promise in the Word". And not to just some of the promises that apply to whosoever, But
specifically to every promise that applies to God's sons.
And there are over 800 promises contained in This Book called the Bible
that apply to you and me and every one of them we are subjected too because of our
special relationship which we have with our Heavenly Father Who has come down
to give us our desires.
Just look at the hundreds of promises that alone are to come to pass in
this last day. A Parousia of Christ, and Epiphanaea,
an Apocalypses, a Phaneroo,
A Doxa and Parrhesia,a Ginosko, etc. Those promises will bring the Elect of
God into a Transformation of the Inner man first, and then the outer man will
naturally follow.
A gathering together of the Elect, a change in our
bodies and a catching away. And this is just
part of the many blessings we are promised for this hour, not to mention the
Grace that is bestowed upon us and the change from Church to Bride etc.
The Scripture speaks of those from other ages who did not receive these
promises yet, because they without us can not be
made perfect. So we see that we are a very special people in a very
special time to receive very special promises of a very special nature.
Now we could go on for hours and get more into detail of what these
Promises are but we don't have time this morning to do this because I want to
proceed further into our study of the end-time chronology of events. We have the descent of the Logos in the form of the Pillar of
Fire, the Epiphanaea of Christ, the Light to the Gentiles, to catch the attention of a sleeping
virgin. We have so many events in this hour it boggles the mind, but they are
all of Him and through Him and they are for us.
So then what are you
afraid of? Brother Branham told us He who made the
promise is here to confirm the promise. And what is the promise for
this day? That there will be a Rapture, which is a shout, a Voice, and a
trumpet! And has He not already confirmed to you your place in His Shout,
because after all God interprets His word by bring it to pass, and he has
confirmed your place in the tent, and in the resurrection because you are
already raised with him if you have received His Spirit.
Have you not heard the
Midnight Cry? "Behold, He's hear, He stands at the door of the church knocking!"
Have you not been made aware of His Presence among us? His Parousia,
His Apokolupsis, His Phaneroo, His Epiphanaea,
His Ginosko, His Doxa,
His Parrhesia? If you have been made a
participant of the shout then won't He also make you a participant of the
Voice, and the Trump? Then be at ease little Bride, for He said, "It is my Fathers Good pleasure to give you the Kingdom."
So let me just break it down for you this
way. we know the same Word that blesses, also brings
the curses. And it all depends on your attitude towards it. But let me say
further, either you have been ordained to it or you haven't? So how do we know
which one?
Well, let me break it down this way. The
Great promise of the hour is His Parousia or
Appearing, His Revealing, right? Well, what if He was here but you didn't know it?
As I said, what good would His Appearing do for you if you were not aware of it?
So just the fact that you are aware means something doesn't it?
Now, in order to attract your attention to
it, there had to be something take place. And so the
Bible speaks of an Ephanaea, which is a
shining forth. Remember the Scripture says, "As the lightning shineth from east to the west so shall also be the Parousia of the Son of Man be".
So God then used an Epiphanea,
a shining forth to attract the attention of the people to His Parousia. Because what good would his Presence
do anyone if they don't know about it. Therefore, we see a world of nearly 7
billion people in it, and hardly anyone has been made aware of God's great Parousia Presense, His appearing.
But you have.
Now, as I said, "since He came wooing a
bride he had to do something to cause her to see that he was here to woo"
Right? That is why it is called an Epiphanaea,
or shining forth. And so The Lord came down with healing in his wings, or
healing campaigns as brother Branham described it to us.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
And in 2
Peter 1:19 Peter said,
We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts:
Zechariah 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor
night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Isaiah 60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
But just as we have this great Epiphanaea of light to attract us as a
fisherman uses a shiny lure to attract fish, so there are on the other hand those
who are not ordained to be attracted to the Light and therefore will not come.
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
And the Bible tells us
how they missed Jesus Christ at his first coming as we see in
John 1:11 He
came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But
as many as received him, to them gave he power (Exusia, an ability to make a right decision) to become (to manifest what we are) the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name: 13 Which
were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God.
So we see this ability to come to the light
has all to do with your birth, not your physical birth but the fact you were in
God before the world began and he ordained you to see the light and come to it.
And so we see in John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth
on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God.
19 And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the
light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
are wrought in God.
So we have a great Parousia
presence which is God coming down to do the following:
1) He is here to make ready a prepared people.
[Luke 1:17 Ephesian 1: 3 - 6,
17 - 21, 1 John 3: 1 - 3, 2 Cor 3: 18, Col 3: 4, 1 Cor 1: 4 - 10, 1 Peter 1: 10 - 13, 23,]
2) He is here to gather His Elect and claim His
Inheritance [ Matthew 3: 11 - 12, 13: 28 - 31,
41, 24: 31 Mark 13: 27, Luke 3: 17, Ephesians 1: 10, 2 Thes
2: 1, ]
3) He is here to save the righteous from perishing.
[ 2 Thes: 1 and 2 , 13 1
Peter 1: 5,9,10 end time Revelation bringing salvation. 2 Peter 2: 12 - 13 while they feast with you. 3: 9, 1 Thes 5:9, 2 Thes 2: 13Titus 2: 11, Hebrews 2: 1 - 4, Hebrews 9: 28, ]
4) He is here to save the Elect from deception.
[Matt 24: 3 - 5, 11, 24, Mark 13: 5-6, Eph 1: 17-18, and
4: 14, 2 Thes: 1: 7 - 12, and 2: 2-3, 10 - 12, 2 John
8 - 10, 1 John 2: 19 - 20, 28, Luke 21: 8, 2 Tim 3: 13, Rev 13: 4 - 10, 14 -
16, 19: 20, Matt 13: 1- 17 Mark 4: 11 - 12, Luke 8:10, 1 Tim 4: 1 - 2, 2 Tim 3:
1 - 9, 4: 3-4 and 8]
5) He is here to seal in the wise Virgins. [Matt 25: 1-13, Ephesians 1: 13 - 18, and 4: 30, 1 peter 1:
3 - 7] ordained to pass the end time Faith test (Faith is a Revelation, there's Only one Faith,
Revelation, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, These ordained to pass the test but
those who fall away from THE Faith, THE Revelation of Jesus Christ are
Reprobate concerning THE Faith, The Revelation.
6) He is here to separate the chaff from the wheat.
[Matt: 3:11-12, 7: 15-23, 13: 24-30, 36-43, 47-49,
25:1-11, 2 Thes 1: 7 - 12 , 2: 3, 10 - 12, 1 Tim 4:
1, Hebrews 6, 1 John 2: 19 - 21, 28, 2 groups, Luke 17: 26 - 37, 2 Cor 4: 3-6,
11: 1-4, Gal 1: 6, 2 Tim 3: 1 - 9, 4: 3-4, 8 ]
7) He is here to raise the dead. [1 Thes 4: 15 - 18, 1 Cor 15:all, Ephesians 1:17-23, Gal 2: 1, Acts 1: 9-11, Matt
27: 51-53, Col 3: 4, Deut 30:3, Luke 20: 36 children of the
resurrection, John 11: 24-25, Acts 24: 15, 21, Rom
6: 5, Phil 3: 10-11, 2 Tim 2: 18, Rev 20: 5]
8) He is here to change the living. [1 Thes 4:15-18, I Cor 15: all, 2 John 3: 1 - 3, 2 Cor
3: 18, Roman 12: 1-2, Col 3: 4, 1 Cor 13: 9 - 12, 2 Thes 1: 7, 10-12, Acts 3: 19-21, 1 Peter 1: 7 -9, 13, 2
Peter 1: 1-4, 10-12, 1 Cor 1: 4 - 10, Matt 24: 30 ]
9) He is here to put us in a rapture. [1 Thes 4: 15-18,
] See also transformation and change.
10) He is here to be Glorified His saints [2 Thes 1: 7, 10-12, 2: 14, 2 Cor 3: 9-10, 18, 4:6, 1 John 3: 1-3, 1 Cor
1: 4-10, 13: 9-12, Romans 12: 1-2, Matt 16: 27, 24:30, 25: 31, Luke 2: 32, 21:
27, John 17: 5, 22, 24, Acts 22: 11, Romans 5: 2, 8: 18, 9:4,23, 1 Cor 2: 7, 15:43, Eph 1: 14, 17-18, Phil 4: 19, 1 Peter 1:
7, 8,11,21, 4: 13-14, 5: 1, 4, 10, 5: 10-11, Col 1: 27 why should
there be this hope of Glory? 3: 4, 1 Thes 2: 12, 1 Tim 3: 16, Heb 1: 3, 2: 7,9,10, Jude 1: 24]
11) He is here to Judge the Living and the dead. (Investigating
Judgment) A Judge!
[Rev 3:
14-21, James 5: 7-9, John 12: 48, Matt 3: 12, 7: 15-23, 13: 24-30, 36-43,
47-49, 25: 1-11, 2: Thes 1: 7-10]
Now, he is here to do even more than that, but
what we've got to do is to lay in His presence and to come into all the divine
promises of God for this hour. But as I was saying, He is here with all that,
but what if you don't even know that he's here. Then all those
blessings are not for you.
So God used a great shining forth, an Epiphanaea, to catch our attention. Then as
we came to focus our attention on The one who is in
our midst, not the man William Branham, those who focused on Him missed he One
He was focused on. As John said,
"I must decrease that he
might increase."
But then as we lay in the presence of the same
one William Branham was focused on, He begin to Apokalupsis
Himself. That means He began to manifest Himself, to unveil himself, to reveal
Himself to us. And listen now, those who entered into this Unveiling of the
Mighty God, began to see and understand His Phaneroo,
That He is here to
manifest Himself in his true character, and thus as we read in Colossians and in 1
Corinthians 12:9-13 and in 1 John 3:1-3,
we realize "as He is so are we
in this world," because we
have entered into His Word, and as He is the Word so have we become Him.
As Paul said we must put on Christ, or as He said, that we might
grow up into Him in all things.
Not grow up unto Him, but grow up into
Him. And the more he Phaneroo's Himself
the more we will Phaneroo ourselves. And
as we come to see him as he truly is, we are filled
with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the
Knowledge of Him. That word knowledge is Ginosko
and it means we are filled with a knowledge that is based not upon intellect,
but an experiential knowledge.
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
We shall fully know as we are fully known.
And that knowledge leads us to a Parrhesia which is a certain confidence or boldness that comes knowing
that you know. And that is not based on intellectual knowing but based on the
fact that you know him in the power of His resurrection.
1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this
world.
Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus,
Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of
him.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived
that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;
and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Now, all these words which I have expressed
here are simply Greek words, which speak of certain blessings which we are to
come into or already are coming into as a result of His glorious appearing.
But the world is not included in all this
because they have not come to the light.
So we see the Parousia of Christ began in 1909, but no one except a little boy named William
Branham knew anything about it, and he didn't even understand much about who
was here himself.
So God begins to shine forth
his great Epiphanaea 1933 and the Light came to the
gentiles. And the gentiles didn't come to the Light.
But those who came to the
Light by 1946
we begin to see the Apokalupsis or unveiling begin, and
with the Sign of Messiah we saw the One who can reveal the secrets of the heart
was here to Reveal more than that. He was here to
reveal Himself.
And so the the Shout begins, behold the
Bride Groom, come out to meet Him.
This is the Apokalupsis,
The Unveiling, the Revealing, or the Revelation of God. The gathering
officially begins with The Prophet going out amongst the Elect to gather
the gentiles for his name , while on the other side of the world, God is also
gathering his children Israel back to
her homeland.
As brother Branham taught us
the Lord does three things in his descent. A Shout which is the Message, then
the Voice which is the
resurrection, and then the Trump
which is the catching away.
Now, notice the Shout is all
about our being gathered unto Him as we see in
2
Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
by our gathering together unto him,
Ephesians 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of
the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
1946 was not only a time when the children of God started coming together
because of the Light, but 1946 Israel started gathering to her homeland
as well.
John 11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in
one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
And not only was 1946 a year that began to gather the wheat, and
Israel, but as we have already shown in the United Nations and the World
council of churches, they also began the great gathering in 1946 as well
as Jesus said in the parable of the sower, that the
tares would also be gathered together as we see Matthew
13:30 Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye
together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the
wheat into my barn.
In January 10, 1946 The first general assembly was gathered for the United Nations and the worlds
churches into the World Council of Churches.
Also in 1946
the first two pioneering World Council of Churches projects were launched in
co-operation with the IMC in 1946: the Commission of the Churches on International
Affairs (CCIA), and the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey,
Switzerland. a coule years
later in 1948 the first general conference was held.
Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together
against the Lord, and against his Christ.
So
we arte already seeing many facets of the end-time chronology of events, taking
place.
Now let's read from 1 Thesalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have
no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming
(Parousia)
of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, (a kalusma,
which is a military command, the shout is the Message) with the voice of the archangel, (that's
the resurrection) and with the trump
of God:(that's the call to the wedding feast, the catching away) and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with
the Lord. 18 Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.
Rapture the 65-1204 P:75 Three things happen, a shout, a
voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears. Now, a
shout. Jesus does all three of them when He's descending. A
"shout," what is a "shout"? It's the Message going
forth first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride. Now, God
has a way of doing things, and He never changes His policy. He never changes
His... He's the unchanging God. In Amos 3:7 He said He would do nothing on the earth until first He revealed it to His
servants the prophets. And just
as certain as He promised it, He'll do it. We will get
into the other two later in our chronology.